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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE development with git
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-07-12 11:31:50
Message-ID: 200707120831.50779.thiago () kde ! org
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Ralf Habacker wrote:
>> That is actually not correct. There is a maintained mingw port of git
>> that works very well. (I am using it myself for the bits of Qt
>> development I do on Windows)
>>  
>
>Thanks for this pointer. The information i had where from
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29#Portability
>
>A native Microsoft Windows port using MinGW
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW> is approaching completion,^ but
>there is more work to be done, including handling of CRLF
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRLF> line endings.^ Porting Git to
>Windows is difficult due to a number of architecture issues.

CRLF seems to be now actually solved too.

But this is exactly my point: all of this is *recent* development. That 
means git is coming to the point where KDE could switch to it. In turn, 
that means we can't switch to it right now.
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